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Coloured Figures of Natural Objects
the Met holds a Petal ballgown in lime green silk velvet and ivory silk taffeta
most of my paper dresses are now assembled in this fashion
in an art deco-inspired gold pattern on black
Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper
Dress #114: Charles James dinner dress in golden brown Morels Coloured Figures of Natural ObjectsThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the dinner dress created by Charles James in 1952; the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 213a, b). Charles James uses spiral draping to wrap a metacircle around a narrow underskirt. The form is maintained using the natural stiffness of the brown taffeta. Charles James is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. His dresses were
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